The Eternal Feud: Renaissance Perspectives on Ancients versus Moderns

by Neal Ward Gilbert

While the Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns became a famous topic in the seventeenth century, debate about the relative merits of ancient and modern figures has been a feature of Western culture since the Greeks. Up through the Middle Ages the term "ancient" was ambiguous with respect to historical time. It was Petrarch, the great Humanist of the early Italian Renaissance, who gave the Greeks and Romans of the pre-Christian era their fixed and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1502804441
• ISBN13: 9781502804440
• Release Date: January 2015
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 1.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.0" x 10.0"